Professor Felicity Gavins
Professor - Pharmacology
Heinz Wolff 111
- Email: felicity.gavins@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 267151
Summary
Felicity read Pharmacology at the University of Sunderland, where she also embarked on an industrial placement year at Bayer Pharmaceuticals in Slough. After completing her BSc (Hons), she moved to London to study for a Ph.D. in Pharmacology at Queen Mary University London, supported by the British Heart Foundation (BHF). Felicity was then awarded a BHF Junior Research Fellowship to undertake further research both in the UK and the USA.
In 2007 Felicity joined Imperial College London to take up a Lectureship position in the Centre for Integrative Mammalian Physiology and Pharmacology (CIMPP). This was shortly followed by a senior lectureship and the appointment to Deputy Head of The Centre of Neurodegeneration & Neuroinflammation. In 2013 she accepted an academic position in the USA at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-Shreveport (LSUHSC-S) and was appointed Director of The Small Animal Imaging Facility.
Felicity is a Fellow of the British Pharmacological Society and of the Royal Society of Biology. She joined Brunel University London in August 2019 as Professor of Pharmacology and Royal Society Wolfson Fellow, and is the Director of The Centre for Inflammation Research and Translational Medicine (CIRTM).
Throughout her academic career, Felicity has worked with and served on numerous national and international research councils, medical charities and learned societies. She has published widely in her field and received a number of awards and honours for her work. She has received funding for her research from a range of funders including: the Royal Society and the Wolfson Foundation (RSWF), the British Heart Foundation (BHF), the Medical Research Council (MRC), the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the American Heart Association (AHA), and the National Institutes of Health/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NIH/NHLBI).
Felicity continues to be actively involved in public and patient organizations which has been immensely instructive for her research. She is also dedicated to promoting mentoring and collaborative research, along with facilitating mentoring of post-doctoral fellows/early-career investigators.
Qualifications
- BSc (Hons)
- Ph.D.
- FRSB
- FBPhS
- FHEA
Responsibility
- Director of The Centre for Inflammation Research and Translational Medicine (CIRTM). https://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Centres/Inflammation-Research-and-Translational-Medicine
- Academy of Sciences Springboard champion for Brunel. https://acmedsci.ac.uk/grants-and-schemes/grant-schemes/springboard
Committees
- University Animal Welfare Ethical Review Board (AWERB)
- University Springboard committee for the Academy of Sciences (Chair)
- College Research Strategy Group (CRSG)
- College Bio-Annex management board
- Collage Academic Probationary Review Panel
- Collage Post-Doctoral Researcher review committee
- College academic recruitment panel
- Open Research Working Group
Newest selected publications
Ahmad, I., Omura, S., Sato, F., Park, A-M., Khadka, S., Gavins, FNE., et al. (2024) 'Exploring the Role of Platelets in Virus-Induced Inflammatory Demyelinating Disease and Myocarditis'. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 25 (6). pp. 1 - 25. ISSN: 1661-6596 Open Access Link
Gerke, V., Gavins, FNE., Geisow, M., Grewal, T., Jaiswal, JK., Nylandsted, J. and et al. (2024) 'Annexins-a family of proteins with distinctive tastes for cell signaling and membrane dynamics'. Nature communications, 15 (1). pp. 1 - 15. ISSN: 2041-1723 Open Access Link
Sparkenbaugh, EM., Henderson, MW., Miller-Awe, M., Abrams, C., Ilich, A., Trebak, F., et al. (2023) 'Factor XII contributes to thrombotic complications and vaso-occlusion in sickle cell disease'. Blood, 141 (15). pp. 1871 - 1883. ISSN: 0006-4971 Open Access Link
Ansari, J., Vital, SA., Yadav, S. and Gavins, FNE. (2023) 'Regulating Neutrophil PAD4/NOX-Dependent Cerebrovasular Thromboinflammation'. International Journal of Biological Sciences, 19 (3). pp. 852 - 864. ISSN: 1449-2288 Open Access Link
Gibson, OR., Astin, R., Puthucheary, Z., Preston, S., Yadav, S., Gavins, FNE. and et al. (2023) 'Skeletal muscle angiogenic, regulatory and heat shock protein responses to prolonged passive hyperthermia of the human lower limb'. American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 324 (1). pp. R1 - R14. ISSN: 0363-6119 Open Access Link